Seems our foreign right wing friends aren't aware of how prevalent racism is in the USA.

18 years ago I made one of the most important decisions of my life and entered a local Cambodian Buddhist Temple as a temple boy and, for only 3 weeks, an actual Therevada Buddhist monk. I am not a scholar, great meditator, or authority on Buddhism, but Buddhism is something I love from the Bottom of my heart. It has taught me sobriety, morality, peace, and very importantly that my suffering is optional, and doesn't have to run my life. I hope to give back what little I can to the Buddhist community, sincerely former monk John

18 years ago I made one of the most important decisions of my life and entered a local Cambodian Buddhist Temple as a temple boy and, for only 3 weeks, an actual Therevada Buddhist monk. I am not a scholar, great meditator, or authority on Buddhism, but Buddhism is something I love from the Bottom of my heart. It has taught me sobriety, morality, peace, and very importantly that my suffering is optional, and doesn't have to run my life. I hope to give back what little I can to the Buddhist community, sincerely former monk John

18 years ago I made one of the most important decisions of my life and entered a local Cambodian Buddhist Temple as a temple boy and, for only 3 weeks, an actual Therevada Buddhist monk. I am not a scholar, great meditator, or authority on Buddhism, but Buddhism is something I love from the Bottom of my heart. It has taught me sobriety, morality, peace, and very importantly that my suffering is optional, and doesn't have to run my life. I hope to give back what little I can to the Buddhist community, sincerely former monk John

"A 'position,' Vaccha, is something that a Tathagata has done away with. What a Tathagata sees is this: 'Such is form, such its origination, such its disappearance; such is feeling, such its origination, such its disappearance; such is perception...such are fabrications...such is consciousness, such its origination, such its disappearance.'" - Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta

'Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.' - Genesis 3:19

'Some fart freely, some try to hide and silence it. Which one is correct?' - Saegnapha

The municipal code had something about charcoal type grills not being allowed, but would you do something like this?

No, I wouldn't. But if I wanted charcoal bbq I'd try to use a place where charcoal bbq is allowed. And if I wasn't aware of the rules and regulations and someone mentioned them to me, I'd rather try to correct my mistake than shoot the messenger.

Posting this silly little thing on Youtube, now almost one million views and thousands of comments ridiculing that white woman? I wouldn't do that to anyone.

If you see racism in anything and everything, you might just be a 21st century Democrat.

Metta,
Paul.

I agree the racism card may be getting overblown in US. It was just an unfortunate situation, and should not be blown out of proportion. Still, in some of these cases the person calling police on blacks should at least be fined for harrasment (the one white girls that keeps calling police on blacks wrongly at Yale, for instance.)

Its nothing like the racism that America supported in South Africa or what happened in Israel today:

Maybe it just goes to show how little actual racism there actually is when the "race bait" being offered is of such poor quality.

Well, there is plenty of racism out there in the world and even in Oakland, but at least in the bay area its hopelessly intertwined with this quasi liberal echo chamber entitlement making discussion of these things in anything resembling a realistic way impossible.

It's fashionable atm to demonize white folks at the slightest suspicion of racism, even when all the facts are not known, just as mere accusations of sexual assault (often a decade or so after the alleged event), are destroying the careers of many men, even before they get a fair trial in a court of law. Of course if sexual assault can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, lock the offenders up, but some men (such a Bill Cosby, for example) have even been convicted on quite shaky evidence in a court of law; it's as though if enough folks accuse someone of something, that counts as 'evidence' nowadays (if the accusers are female and the accused is male).

So its not racist for a white woman to accuse a black family of trespassing in a public park. Just goes to show how easy it is to defend racism on this forum, sad commentary on our readership.

18 years ago I made one of the most important decisions of my life and entered a local Cambodian Buddhist Temple as a temple boy and, for only 3 weeks, an actual Therevada Buddhist monk. I am not a scholar, great meditator, or authority on Buddhism, but Buddhism is something I love from the Bottom of my heart. It has taught me sobriety, morality, peace, and very importantly that my suffering is optional, and doesn't have to run my life. I hope to give back what little I can to the Buddhist community, sincerely former monk John

So its not racist for a white woman to accuse a black family of trespassing in a public park. Just goes to show how easy it is to defend racism on this forum, sad commentary on our readership.

Is it really so difficult for you to comprehend?

Race is irrelevant to the situation.

Someone called police because some people were in violation of the park rules.

What is sad is that some people cannot help themselves but to interject race into each and every situation, and go on to make unfounded moral accusations against others on those grounds. As such, your aspersions on "our readership" are weak and pathetic.

Please desist from violating the rules of the News section, because just like the park users, you're in violation of the rules. My race, nor yours, has zero to do with it...

Metta,
Paul.

"The uprooting of identity is seen by the noble ones as pleasurable; but this contradicts what the whole world sees." (Snp 3.12)

"It is natural that one who knows and sees things as they really are is disenchanted and dispassionate." (AN 10.2)

“Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” (Flannery O'Connor)

Someone called police because some people were in violation of the park rules.

That's not true.

Given the politically charged environment, she must have known that the situation could turn violent or even deadly.

Whether she was racist or not, we don't know. We do know that she created a very dangerous situation over a trifling matter.

“When you engage law enforcement in these kinds of things you are opening the door for things to go very wrong, the potential for arrests like in Philadelphia with those two black men or worse physical assault or death and I don’t believe in this day and age that white folks don’t know that,” said Brooks.